On the other hand it is not like the UK had an incredible large number of seats and that every voter picked the same party. They can't do anything significant alone in the parliament. Denying them EU elections would be symbolic, not important. Also I am not sure about that, but I wouldn't be surpris...

The problem is there's EU elections in two months and it would be pretty ridiculous for the UK to take part in them as they're talking about leaving all the time. I don't know how much leeway the EU will give the UK here. This will probably used as an argument by someone, possibly with effect. As f...

Quite often in films or tv series, when two characters talk while one is driving, the driver looks at his passenger instead of watching the road (and very often the audience doesn't get to see the road either). This generally distracts me much from what they are saying.

I think they also probably think, either consciously or unconsciously, that even if they aren't guilty of that crime specifically , anyone who puts themselves in a position to be charged with a capital crime is probably guilty of some serious crime or other, and so society is still better off witho...

sardia wrote:How about we don't encourage the Germans (the backbone of the EU), to use force in order to get what they want? The far right is dangerous enough without reawakening the German war machine.

I misused "age" in this case. I don't mean that The Prisoner is especially bad to watch today (and I can see myself downloading it or borrowing the dvds). I mean that it's easier to convince someone who wasn't born then, to watch old films than old tv series. Therefore I predict that tv se...

For those of you who haven't been following the situation in France, here is a surprisingly good summary from Pamela Anderson: https://www.pamelaandersonfoundation.org/news/2018/12/4/yellow-vests-and-i She is indeed surprisingly relevant. (Quite obviously the French are discussing this in French la...

As a French man, saying email for emails would feel super weird, but as is the case with so many English mass nouns. My email messages are naturally emails. Did you notice I sent you three pieces of email about new year's? feels quite non-practical.

I'm 3 episodes into the new She-Ra series, and it's pretty solid. it's got sort of a Ghibli meets Don Bluth simplified style and reminds me a bit of Avatar: The Last Airbender, there's world building and magic rules, and they're upfront about 'people have died in this war' but also there's the 'jum...

In general cop shows tell you that cops are awesome people who never do anything wrong. Are you white and did you like omit to pay your taxes? Your cop friends will help you fix that. You most probably know the Police misbehavior thread already. Most fiction (especially American fiction) is propagan...

The Christian families were bewildered, 'why do they hate us, the trinity is very simple it's just a 3 sided paper, we aren't polytheists how could they say that about us' While I was born in what is historically a Catholic country (and my four grandparents were Catholics) that trinity thing that i...

I went to Spain for vacation during my time in college and my dad gave me 500 euro for spending money. Except, he gave me a single bill of 500 euros. It took a long time until I found a business who was willing to break it. Definitely not the most practical note for everyday spending. Doesn't mean ...

Well, people can see your eye colour from the photo on the ID, I've not seen it explicitly listed on the ID. Same with sex/gender, the photo is enough to tell people what you look like. My (French) id says I have brown eyes. So does my passport. Height is not super easy to judge accurately anyways ...

I don't think Netflix worries much about truth when marketing their offer. It is telling how they label "Netflix originals" some Japanese animated series that they haven't produced at all (except for the dubs I guess).

One wonders how law enforcement would work if people could choose where their tax dollars went. Are there enough folks who love the cops to maintain their current level of funding? If challenged for budget, would extortionistic practices rise? One could worry it would only work decently in wealthy ...

Moving between UE countries is super easy (although French cops are currently making pedestrian movement between Italy and France very complicated). However if you aren't allowed to work somewhere, life will be difficult. (And this is also why it sounds funny when Americans claim they will massively...

I only take calls from numbers I know. I can afford that because I am not looking for a job or doing anything complicated. If they don't leave a message, they are probably a spambot. And if they don't and try more than once, I google for them and generally blacklist them. (I don't mean to suggest th...

That might be a common trope in old school fairy tales, but it wouldn't sell well these days (because the targetted audience of a show in which the protagonist is a teenager wouldn't want to see that). In general tvtropes.org is a nice tool for such searches, but in this case this isn't a common tro...

The original comment was that Swiss look down on others and I agreed, Of course they do. Because they all live on high alpine meadows (making cuckoo clocks out of army-knife-carved Toblerones and cow-bells made of Nazi gold). But then shouldn't they welcome massive imaginary Nepalese immigration? (...

You didn't notice that four of those links were to news sites and didn't even get as far as seeing the titles of those YouTube videos, so you've probably already stopped reading this, but what the heck? Here's the summary: Back in the '90s, enough of the Serbs, collectively, decided to exterminate ...

That's a good thing about Netflix, they give some visibility to non-American productions (alas they do that in a very random manner). I am not much of a series watcher (outside of Japanese animation) but I also noticed 3%, a Brazilian production about people living in a shitty future passing tests i...